Şərur (also spelt Sharur, formerly Bashnorashen (1930–1966), formerly Iliich and Il'ichëvsk (1966–1990) after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) is a town and the most populous municipality in and capital of the Sharur Rayon in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.[citation needed] It has a population of 6,964. It was the administrative center of Sharur-Daralagez uyezd of the Russian empire.